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July 29, 2005
Now this is interesting. . .
The Blogfather directed me to this:
Kabuli, who blogs in English as Afghan Lord under a pseudonym in order to protect himself, has received numerous threats posted to his blog from the same IP address which belongs - shockingly - to the BBC. One of them, which Kabuli emailed to Global Voices, asks: “Do you think I do not know you?” Then it continues on to threaten: “There were a number of people like you, who did not remain alive. They were all buried in graves. You have to be taken off from this land so that better human beings could take your place. For, you are dirty.”
Read the whole thing at Gobal Voices Online.
While people will rush to the defense of the BBC reporter mentioned in the article, claiming that the IP coincidence isn't a smoking gun in his hand. The fact remains that these comments are coming from someone at the BBC. The BBC says they are investigating the claims, and I'll be interested to see where this goes.
Reminds me of the whole "Sassygate" affair playing out at The Guardian. The Daily Ablution can catch you up on that.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at July 29, 2005 10:32 AM
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Why couldn't someone just be using a series of proxies (standard faire for many), the last of which is BBC and the one before it is anonymous? That would be producing the same IP addy, wouldn't it?
Posted by: Kyle at July 29, 2005 11:45 AM
That could well be the case. If it IS the case, that will make the BBC investigation very easy now, wouldn't it.
This possibility is exactly why I said it's not a smoking gun yet. However, I'd be curious to know why the BBC would have open proxies available for people to use in such a way. One would think that a government media organization would have safeguards against that for this very reason.
We'll just need to wait and see.
--Jason
Posted by: Jason Coleman at July 29, 2005 11:51 AM
